Should the minimum wage be increased?

Some low-paid workers think it should, and some of their employers don’t. No surprise there.

As the Toledo Blade reported, “Three years after the last increase in the nation’s minimum wage, worker advocacy groups have begun a concerted effort to raise it from $7.25 an hour.

” … For the nation’s lowest-paid workers, the purchasing power of the minimum wage now is 30 percent less than it was in 1968. If today’s minimum wage had kept pace with the value it had in 1968, adjusted for inflation, it would be more than $10 an hour.”

Whaddya think?

– Should it be raised or not?

– If it is increased, will employers hire fewer workers?

– Or will employers adapt to this change and keep the same number of workers?

– Did you ever work at a job paying the minimum wage? What was it like?